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As a slipgate warrior of great experience, you are the veteran of countless battles in the dusty worlds that lie scattered throughout the universe, and the spaces in between.
In a lifespan measured only by the accumulation of victories, you have made friend and foe of the strangest creatures that populate these realms. Unbound by such futile concepts as good and evil, the last allegiance you gave was with the monstrous entity known in the human languages as 'Cthon'.
A contract, inscribed on daemon hide and signed in your own blood, has bound your life to Cthon.
The awesome power and insight of this fearsome servitor of the Great Old Ones has served you well in time, but now the day has come for Cthon to collect on this bloody pact.
However, a being of such raw destruction as Cthon well recognises your warrior prowess, and the Great Old Ones, it seems, are not without a sense of humour.
Cthon has offered you the chance to terminate the diabolical agreement between you.
The contract is secreted in a library of the ancient outer worlds, amidst a city of hostile creatures. Towards this you are hurtled through a slipgate to seek your release.
If successful, you will be freed of obligation; if not, you will be freed of life.
Time has already run out.
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Author: Kell ( with certain structures by John Romero )
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Create a new sub-folder called Contract in your Quake directory to give C:\Quake\Contract. Extract the contents of the zip file to this folder; 'Contract Revoked' is designed to run from a separate folder, since it contains its own start map plus a few modified skins and sounds.
Run GLQuake with the command line
glquake.exe -game contract
Start a new game from the main menu, or bring down the console and type map start.
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Recommended: GLQuake. Make no mistake - Contract Revoked can be render heavy in places. Some machines do handle it in software mode, but it is advisable to run it in the GL patch.
Download it from www.planetquake.com/quake1/files.shtml
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Recommended Wateralpha: 0.5
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Deathmatch Start Positions: 8 in the Prologue, just for fun.
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Coop Start Positions: 3, but watch out for telefragging.
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Player Load: Solo, obviously
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R_speeds High: about 1700 wpoly
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R_speeds Average: about 400 wpoly
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Parental Advisory: Explicit Content - 'Contract Revoked' contains periods of challenging gameplay.
Users may wish to excercise caution before installing, as this episode may cause serious entertainment.
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As with my other levels, this episode contains a hidden signiture room. Go figure.
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Construction And Spurious Technical Information
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Base: New levels from scratch, except the winding cavern entrance to the secret level which was originally 'The Lost Entrance To The Dismall Oubliette' by John Romero
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New Textures: Yes, knave.wad
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New Sounds: Yes. Spooky, aren't they?
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New Demos: Yes, for no adequately explored reason.
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Editors Used: Worldcraft v1.5b/1.6, Paint Shop Pro v5, Wally v1.42c, TexMex 3.4
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File Sizes: 3,007kb / 3,450kb / 2,993kb / 4,075kb / 3,840kb
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Number Of Solids: 1272 / 2543 / 1479 / 2768 / 2769
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Number Of Solid Entities: 58 / 121 / 102 / 187 / 174
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Number Of Point Entities: 227 / 610 / 505 / 685 / 962
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Number Of Cigarettes Smoked: 4212 ( you're not actually reading this crap, are you? )
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Distribution And Legal Pastry
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Permission is granted to extract the textures for use in your own levels; all I ask is that I recieve a credit when your level is released.
You may distribute this pak file on any format, to anyone else.
There are just two stipulations -
1. The pak file must remain unaltered.
2. This html file must be included, also unaltered.
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id software for the arcane alchemy that is Quake
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Ben Morris for the superlative Worldcraft
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Ty Mathews and Neal White for Wally
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Herschel Giansiracusa for Pakie
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Kevin 'Tyrann' Shanahan for Tyrlite ( entity compression in the Epilogue )
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John 'metlslime' Fitzgibbons for playtesting and drawing my attention to the 'powers of 2'
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Mark 'Recoil' Hulme-Jones for getting me started
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Some original hallucinations by Giovanni Piranesi
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Dedicated to Howard Philips Lovecraft ( Dead But Dreaming )
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